News concerning Alioth

This page accumulates some news that are going to be sent on debian-devel-announce at the next update. You'll find the older news linked from the main page.

Good usage of SSH

Most Alioth users have an Unix account accessible over SSH. While it's important for the service, it can also have bad consequences when an Unix account is cracked. To limit the risks it's important to follow some guidelines. Matt Taggart summed them up in a nice article: http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/ssh/